Chapter 103: Exposed
After passing through the two tomb gates, the width of the tomb passage exceeded Chen Ziyang's imagination, and the tomb passage was about the same width as the 30-meter-wide tomb gate he had seen in the square before.
The sides of the entire tomb are neatly stacked with stone bricks. Because the tomb road is too wide, the Eastern Dynasty army is divided into two columns, walking slowly forward along both sides of the tomb road, in the dark tomb road, only by looking at the relatively small headlamp light on the head of the Eastern Dynasty soldiers on the opposite side of the tomb road, a person can realize how wide the tomb road is.
Seeing the scale of this tomb, Chen Ziyang estimated that this tomb was not small, and because he had encountered the mechanism of poisonous quicksand before, the three civil engineers let the umbrella Shishuai, who reacted the fastest, go to the forefront. The three men followed behind the group, walking cautiously.
Chen Ziyang was paying attention to his surroundings when he suddenly heard a "poof" sound from nowhere, and he felt a breeze blowing on his face from the side. Looking up, there was a hole in the wall in front of his head, and this hole was the thickness of a person's finger, and it seemed that the hole was there for a long time, and a gust of wind from the hole just now blew out all the sand and dust in the hole.
Why is there wind here, and what is this cave for? Chen Ziyang stared at the hole with a sideways face.
"Get down!" I don't know who shouted, after shouting, Chen Ziyang felt that he was thrown to the ground by the umbrella stone shuai in front of him. Suddenly, Chen Ziyang, who was stumbling, only heard the sound of popping incessantly, constantly resounding on this wall. At this time, he suddenly realized that someone had touched the mechanism in the tomb, and there should be crossbow arrows and something like that could be shot from these holes on both sides.
After a few minutes, the popping sound ceased to sound, and everyone got up cautiously and looked at the sides of the tomb, only to see that there were many holes on both sides of the tomb, and most of these holes had an iron crossbow arrow sticking out of these holes, and these crossbow arrows were only half extended, and half remained in the holes, and many crossbow arrows fell on both sides of the tomb.
When everyone saw this scene, they exclaimed, if it weren't for these tension springs loaded with crossbow arrows and the like, because they were ineffective or ineffective for too many years, just these crossbow arrows just now would have turned them all into hedgehogs.
And now these crossbow arrows because of the lack of excitation in the back, most of them did not cause any damage, seven or eight out of ten, did not fire successfully, stuck in the hole, and only a very small part of the remaining one or two percent were lethal, in addition to causing a few soldiers to abrasion, the mechanism in this tomb did not cause much trouble to everyone.
Because this happened, everyone was more careful when moving forward. Soon, nearly 100 meters of the tomb road came to an end.
It is not so much that the tomb road has come to an end, but that the stone walls on both sides of the tomb and the rock roof above it are gone, and the tomb road extends into a huge stone cave, and the people are walking through a stone road that is not too wide, and on both sides of the stone road, all of them are cliffs. At this time, the road that everyone walked was like a lonely boat in the endless dark ocean, and it seemed so small in the darkness.
Two Eastern soldiers fired two flares at both sides of the cemetery, and the flares with parachutes slowly fell from mid-air. Under the effect of the flares, everyone saw the scale of the cave.
In fact, this cave is not as huge as they imagined, more than 100 meters away on both sides of the tomb is the stone wall, and just below the cliff of dozens of meters on both sides of the tomb, there are neatly arranged rows of wooden coffins, it seems that this is the place of burial.
Just as the flare was about to go out, the two soldiers fired one flare from each other, this time using the light to focus on the coffins under the cliffs on both sides.
There are probably more than 200 coffins on each side. Seeing that these coffins were not opened, nor were they damaged, Chen Ziyang relieved himself, even if there was something black and white fierce in it, at such a high height, they basically couldn't come up, these coffins should not worry about it for the time being.
However, through the firing of flares by the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty, Chen Ziyang was 100% sure of one thing. That is, the previous guess of the umbrella stone marshal was correct, and these Eastern Dynasty soldiers did know the situation in the front part of the tomb gate. Otherwise, why didn't they fire flares when they searched the square in front of the tomb gate, and didn't look at what was under the cliffs beneath the square?
There is only one reasonable explanation for the completely different actions of these Eastern Dynasty soldiers now and before, and that is the place in front of the tomb gate, which they have indeed already scouted. Although they pretended to search in front of the scientific expedition team, this detail of the flare betrayed them.
As the group continued along the road, the rock walls on both sides of the road surrounded them again. It's just that this time the rock walls are all natural rock walls. After a short while, the rock walls on both sides of the road suddenly enlarged, and the whole tomb road suddenly became much taller. And on the rock walls on both sides, a lot of rock reliefs appeared. Chen Ziyang knew that this was the real tombway.
Chen Ziyang, who had not studied these things, only felt that these relief carvings were strange and strange, and they were all human faces and dragon shapes that he had never seen. Wang Lele, who was beside him, explained that these were all totems that the people of the Eastern Dynasty once worshipped, but because their carving methods were different from traditional Chinese carving methods, these things would look weird.
After a while, the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty found two ear chambers on both sides of this passage, and found many burial items inside, including priceless gold utensils and other items.
But apparently Camp Commander Jin did not have this purpose, he did not let the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty and the scientific expedition team excavate these items, but let everyone continue to go deeper. Chen Ziyang felt very strange, he couldn't figure out what this Jin Battalion Commander was looking for, could it be that this Jin Battalion Commander knew that there was something in this tomb that he needed?
After further studying, a total of four ear chambers were excavated, most of which were valuable funerary goods, and in a huge stone chamber connected at the end of the passage, the soldiers of the Eastern Dynasty found a jade coffin!
Then the members of the scientific expedition team were called here, looking at the familiar scene in front of them, the three civil engineers glanced at each other, and they all saw a trace of surprise in each other's eyes, why did this cardinal Wang's coffin come here again!